The Global Services Forum will gather together prominent players in the services sector, from governments, the business world, and academia.

It is a unique opportunity for sharing best practices and forming partnerships that promote growth in trade in services, and foster sustainable development.

Organized by UNCTAD together with the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China and The People's Government of Beijing Municipality

On the occasion of the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), 28 May-1 June 2013, Beijing, China
 

 News

 
GSF 2013
28 May 2013Help for landlocked developing countries in keeping services statistics
UNCTAD has proposed a long-term project to aid landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) improve their abilities to compile accurate statistics on trade in services.
GSF 2013
28 May 2013To boost employment, expand services capacity, experts advise
Panelists at the Global Services Forum told a morning meeting that rapidly expanding trade in services offers an opportunity for employment growth in developing countries.
Global Services Forum
23 May 2013Global Services Forum to focus on sector vital to developing-country economies
Research and trends in the global economy indicate that developing countries cannot develop without expanding and deepening their services sectors - spheres of economic activity that range from energy, to telecommunications, to such knowledge- and skills-based work as engineering and computer programming.
15 May 2013Trade in creative products reached new peak in 2011, UNCTAD figures show

Numbers released in run-up to Global Services Forum in Beijing show creative industries exports rose sharply from 2002-2011.​

10 May 2013UNCTAD services study tour sends Ugandan officials to South Africa

Ugandan officials are visiting Pretoria, South Africa, from 6 to 10 May, to learn how to expand their nation’s services sector so that it boosts growth and makes the national economy less vulnerable to external shocks.​

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  Statements and Presentations

 
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Statistics of International Trade in Services: UNCTAD's vision of a way forward - A project for Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), Mr. Henri Laurencin, Head, Development Statistics and Information Branch, UNCTAD
27/05/2013 - 546KB
 
Outsourcing becoming a necessity more than a need, Mr. Tiak Koon Loh, CEO, Pactera Technology International
27/05/2013 - 326KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel A
 
From Services to Value Added: Trade Policies Implications, Ms. Nuning S. Barwa, President, Perkosmi, Indonesia
28/05/2013 - 493KB - Agenda item Session 2 - Panel B
 
From Services to Value Added: Trade Policies Implications, Mr. Gerry Mattios, Partner, Bain and Company, United States of America
27/05/2013 - 564KB - Agenda item Session 2 - Panel B
 
From Services to Value Added: Trade Policies Implications, Ms. Sherry Stephenson, Senior Fellow, International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development
28/05/2013 - 928KB - Agenda item Session 2 - Panel B
 
Outsourcing becoming a necessity more than a need, Mr Jean-Marie Paugam, Deputy Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC)
28/05/2013 - 231KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel A
 
Outsourcing becoming a necessity more than a need, Mr. Russell Ives, Managing Director, Business Process Outsourcing, Accenture for Australia and New Zealand
28/05/2013 - 504KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel A
 
Outsourcing becoming a necessity more than a need, Mr. Hanumantha Karthik, Vice President, Research, Everest Group
28/05/2013 - 218KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel A
 
Outsourcing becoming a necessity more than a need, Mr. Marco Sorgetti, Director General, International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations
28/05/2013 - 1661KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel A
 
Building supply and export capacity: success factors and challenges, Mr. Wim van Heumen, Programme Director for Services, Center for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries, the Netherlands
28/05/2013 - 163KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel B
 
UNCTAD Services Policy Reviews, Ms. Mina Mashayekhi, Head, Trade Negotiations and Commercial Diplomacy Branch, UNCTAD
29/05/2013 - 416KB
 
Building supply and export capacity: success factors and challenges, Mr. Abdelwahab Maatar, Minister of Trade and Handicrafts, Tunisia
28/05/2013 - 204KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel B
 
Building supply and export capacity: success factors and challenges, Mr. Gerardo Antonio Meza Grillo, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Peru
28/05/2013 - 656KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel B
 
Creative Services: An example of partnerships, H.E. Sheikh Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari, Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage, Qatar
28/05/2013 - 109KB - Agenda item Session 4 - Panel B
 
Speaking Notes, H.E. Mr. Osman Omer Ali Elsharif, Ministry of Trade, Sudan
29/05/2013 - 159KB - Agenda item Summit
 
Building supply and export capacity: success factors and challenges, Mrs. Pumela Salela, Member of the Advisory Council of the World BPO/ITO Forum, South Africa
27/05/2013 - 694KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel B
 
Intervention, Son Excellence Monsieur Álvaro Augusto Soares Paixão Junior, Secrétaire d’Etat du Commerce de la République de l’Angola
28/05/2013 - 228KB - Agenda item Summit
 
Speaking Notes, H.E. Mr. Temeki Tsolo, Minister of Trade and Industry, Marketing and Cooperatives of the Kingdom of Lesotho
28/05/2013 - 276KB - Agenda item Working Lunch
 
Speaking Notes, H.E. Mr. Arnold J. Nicholson QC, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica
28/05/2013 - 222KB - Agenda item Working Lunch
 
Building supply and export capacity: success factors and challenges, Mr. Nanno Mulder, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, (ECLAC)
27/05/2013 - 69KB - Agenda item Session 3 - Panel B
 
Statement, HE Mr. Abdulla Al Saleh, Undersecretary, Ministry of Economy, United Arab Emirates
28/05/2013 - 421KB - Agenda item Summit
 
Statement, H.E. Ms. Amelia Kyambadde, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Uganda
28/05/2013 - 140KB - Agenda item Summit
 
Statement, H.E. Mr. Temeki Tsolo, Minister of Trade and Industry, Cooperatives and Marketing, Lesotho
27/05/2013 - 414KB - Agenda item Working Lunch
 
Statement, H.E. Mr. Arnold Nicholson, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica
27/05/2013 - 323KB - Agenda item Working Lunch
 
Keynote address: Making the Service Sector the New Engine for Sustainable Economic and Social Development, Mr. Li Keqiang, Premier of the People’s Republic of China State Council
28/05/2013 - 45KB - Agenda item Summit
 
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